Friday, December 17, 2010

How to Hack Facebook Profile Photos


Along with the New Profile Page makeover launched, Facebook introduced the Photostream; a set of the five most recent photos in which you’ve been tagged, prominently displayed at the top of your profile. You can activate it here. Here’s what i did first thing when the new profiles went live:

Here are the instructions to execute the photo tags profile hack:

  • Fire up your favorite image editor (this can be GIMP, Adobe Photoshop, or anything a slightly more advanced than MS Paint).
  • Load an image of your choice.
  • Resize its dimensions to 485 by 68 pixels (you might want to crop some unnecessary bits to make it look better)
  • Now cut or crop the image into 5 pieces of 97 by 68 pixels each and save them (obviously, you can achieve this effect with 4, 3 or even just 2 images as well).
  • Upload the five pieces to a Facebook album and start tagging yourself in reverse order. That means the part of the image that’s supposed to appear FIRST, should be tagged LAST. And you should start with the right end of the cut-up image. We’ve learned that it’s more accurate to tag yourself while viewing the album normally, instead of in Edit Album mode.
  • If everything went well, you’ll have a new, awesome Facebook profile page header!

Video Tutorial




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